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Securing Smart Homes From Hackers

Parks Associates have predicted more than 50 million connected homes by 2020. With that being the scale of device connections, it is high time for developers to prioritise protecting customer data.

From the article "Securing Smart Homes From Hackers" by Bill Curtis, Robert Cragie.

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